This guide is for the Snowball (50 TB or 80 TB of storage space). If
you are looking for documentation for the Snowball Edge, see the AWS Snowball Edge Developer Guide.

Options for the Amazon S3 Adapter for
Snowball

Following, you can find information on Amazon S3 Adapter for Snowball options that
help you configure how
the adapter communicates with a Snowball.

Note

Before transferring data into Amazon S3 using Snowball, make sure that the files and
directories that you're going to transfer are named according to the Object Key Naming
Guidelines.

Option

Description

Usage and Example

-a

--aws-profile-name

The AWS profile name that you want to use to sign requests to the Snowball.
By default, the adapter uses the credentials specified in the home
directory/.aws/credentials file, under the [default] profile. To
specify a different profile, use this option followed by the profile name.

snowball-adapter -a

snowball-adapter -a Lauren

-s

--aws-secret-key

The AWS secret key that you want to use to sign requests to the Snowball.
By default, the adapter uses the key present in the default profile specified in
the home directory/.aws/credentials file, under the
[default] profile. To specify a different profile, use this option, followed by a
secret key. The --aws-profile-name option takes precedence if both
options are specified.

snowball-adapter -s

snowball-adapter -s wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY

-h

--help

Usage information for the adapter.

snowball-adapter -h

-i

--ip

The Snowball's IP address, which can be found on the Snowball's E Ink
display.

snowball-adapter -i

snowball-adapter -i 192.0.2.0

-m

--manifest

The path to the manifest file for this job. You can get the manifest file
from the AWS Snowball Management Console, or programmatically
from the job management API.

A value that specifies whether or not the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol
is used for communicating with the adapter. If no additional certification path or
private key is provided, then a self-signed certificate and key are generated in
the home directory/.aws/snowball/config
directory.

snowball-adapter -ssl

snowball-adapter -ssl

-c

--ssl-certificate-path

The path to the certificate to use for the SSL protocol when communicating
with the adapter.

snowball-adapter -c

~/.aws/snowball/myssl/certs

-k

--ssl-private-key-path

The path to the private key to use for the SSL protocol when communicating
with the adapter.